# Yellow trees

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2016-11-26

architect-developer, architecture, building-wrap, construction-wrap, ddg, ddg-partners, design, design-development, japanese-art, japanese-artist, real-estate-development, uncategorized, vertical-integration, yayoi-kusama

---

I took this picture on a recent trip to New York:  

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/baade41eb517f656ba48c008d7e750cc.jpg)

I liked the mid-block building and so I wanted to document it. That’s what I do when I walk around a city.

When I went back to research the project later on, I then discovered that it was developed by DDG Partners, which I have been following for years. I think they do terrific work and I love their vertically-integrated approach to real estate development. Two years ago I mentioned them in a post called: [3 architects operating as developers](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/113345434491/3-architects-operating-as-developers).

If you’d like to learn more about the project, you can [do that here](http://ddgpartners.com/projects/345meatpacking/). It’s called 345MEATPACKING. 

What I want to talk about today is how they wrapped the building during construction. Working with the Japanese artist [Yayoi Kusama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama) – who at the time had an exhibition going on at the Whitney – they created a 120-foot reproduction of her painting Yellow Trees.

Here’s a video of what that looked like (c. 2012). If you can’t see the video below, [click here](https://vimeo.com/79792779).

\[vimeo 79792779 w=640 h=360\]

What a great idea. But don’t tell anyone. I want to steal the idea for one of my projects.

---

*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/yellow-trees)*